[Rubygems-developers] Quick feature request: cd to directory of a gem

[Michael Neumann]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:27:57PM +1000, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Context: I want to check out Net::SSH - the code, that is.  So I
> install the gem; now what?
> 
> I want to go
> 
>   gem cd net-ssh
> 
> and have a shell prompt open in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh
> so I can poke around.
> 
> Is this a cool feature or not?  And how could it be implemented?
> Maybe I've missed something simple, but I tried a while ago with no
> success.  Obviously one needs to be mindful of people's different
> shells as well.

I think it's not possible this way, but if "gem cd net-ssh" would print
"cd pathname" to stdout, you could simply write:

  `gem cd net-ssh`

For me it would suffice if there would be a "gem dir net-ssh" command
that outputs just the pathname. But not sure if it's worth.

Regards,

  Michael